Football is a very competitive and physical sport, and there is always a chance that a player will get injured while playing on the field; or even off the field as some have occured. This is common knowledge in the NFL, but what gets everyone angry is that their favorite teams lose good players during the preseason, where the games don’t really matter.

During Week 2 of the preseason there have been several injuries that could greatly affect how a team performs once the regular season starts. For instance, the Pittsburgh Steelers just lost their great Center, Maurkice Pouncey with a broken ankle. He may not be the most important player on the field, but his presence was crucial to the offense.

Pouncey is not the only that suffered this week, take a look at some other injuries that happened during the weekend games:

PLAYER

TEAM

INJURY

Jordy Nelson

Packers

Possible torn ACL

T.J. Lang

Packers

Possible concussion

Scott Tolzien

Packers

Possible concussion

Maurkice Pouncey

Steelers

Broken Left Ankle

Stephon Tuitt

Steelers

Left ankle injury

Robert Griffin III

Washington

Possible concussion and shoulder injury

Johnny Manziel

Browns

Possible elbow injury

Brandon Weeden

Cowboys

Concussion

Jon Beason

Giants

Sprained knee

Bennett Jackson

Giants

Torn ACL

Marquess Wilson

Bears

Hamstring Injury

Ben Ijalana

Jets

Sprained MCL

Roddy White

Falcons

Minor right elbow surgery

Vance McDonald

49ers

Ankle injury

Let’s hope that no other players get seriously injured during the remaining two weeks of the preseason, as it would be a shame for them to miss out on football games that actually mattered. Fantasy sports fans shouldn’t be the only ones upset about these injuries, and hopefully the NFL will lower the amount of preseason games in the future.